June 22, 2011

wednesday // recent reads


These last few days I haven't been feeling too good, so I have just been lying on the couch underneath a blanket all the time, reading books, watching dvds and eating lots of junk. Have you read/watched anything good recently? Tell me about it!

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  1. good reads! i love bukowski!

    I'm re watching twin peaks series..i highly recommend it if you haven't watched it already!

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  2. like Bukowski, and like your blog!

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  3. Annette ... I ask you what digital camera uses. Thank you
    A good film is The Break-Up with Jennifer Aniston :)

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  4. And I forgot to ask if your digital photos in a program provides is very beautiful ... Thank you Annette

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  5. I just read Sofi Oksanen's Puhdistus and Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules Élémentaires (Atomised in english) except of studying for my exams ;)) and both of it are really good books, not really happy reading, but they're written really well!

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  6. I'm very intrigued by that second book, the title is just great. Oh, Harumi Murakami...just, so good!

    Take Care!

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  7. Kiki Smith- Prints, Books & Things- a beautiful collection of Smith's work <3
    I watched Never Let Me Go last night... that was, well, dark dark dark. I also finished watching Twin Peaks recently, loveeee it. How are you feeling about Wetlands? I really didn't like that book- I felt like it was just trying to be shocking rather than well written.

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  8. I haven't read any Bukowski but judging from the comments from other readers I feel that I must! I'm currently reading a book called In the Image by Dara Horn. It's quite good and emotional.

    If you'd like to see my reading materials please check out my literature lifestyle blog!

    &hearts Camille
    http://www.thedeweydecimals.com

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  9. These are great books. Recently I've read Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" and John Green's "Looking for Alaska". Just as a break between psychological textbooks for exams.
    Now I'm spending my evenings with Murakami and Hemingway (again and again...). How do you feel about "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"?

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  10. Åååh jag ÄLSKAR Charlotte Roche! Hon är så äcklig! Och hur rolig som helst. Porrig och smart på en och samma gång. Samtidigt som man får en tankeställare om kvinnans besatthet att förinta (duscha-vaxa-raka-etc) allting som egentligen ÄR kvinnligt för att bli en kamomill-luktande-cyborg.

    Den senaste boken jag läste var "Alla monster måste dö" av Magnus Bärtås och Fredrik Ekman. Ett reportage om en gruppresa genom Nordkorea. Oerhört bisarrt, osannolikt och underhållande.

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  11. Some movies I recently watched and liked: The Other Woman, Somewhere, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Blue Valentine, The King's Speech, Wendy and Lucy, The Exploding Girl, Husbands and Wives, La belle personne.

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  12. Oh nice reads. Charles Bukowski is awesome! I recently read Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos. It's pretty dense but really interesting and I thought it was definitely worth it.

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  13. Bukowski is my favorite writer.
    I also enjoy reading Chuck Palahniuk's books.

    Your photos are amazing!

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  14. Sorry you aren't feeling well. Something seems to be going around over here and my classmates (and me, but not too bad) are getting sick.

    I loved the movie The Fall and I highly recommend it. Brilliant story-telling.

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  15. my dad and i just read "the stranger" by camus together. it wasn't as depressing and hopeless as people make it out to be.

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  16. a gorgeous book I finished recently was 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith. Highly recommended.

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  17. Bukowski är inte dum. :) Läste nyligen Historier från ingenstans. En novellsamling av honom.

    Annars kan jag rekommendera det mesta av Joyce Carol Oates. Alltid sådär lagom vemodigt. Lilla Himlafågel var den senaste jag läste av henne. Fantastisk bok.

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  18. i'm quite sure you'd love Michael Cunnigham's book (my fav "Hours" or "specimen days") or maybe sth of Sylvie Plath?

    if it's going about sth to watch. I could recomend series "United state of Tara" - really good!

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  19. The war of art by Steven Pressfield.

    Great read.

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  20. I love your blog. your photos are always so beautiful. Feel better soon! I've been reading "What is the What" and adoring it.

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  21. i haven't been reading anything in the last couple of months, but i am finally finding more and more time for myself and i'm currently reading "extremely loud & incredibly close" by jonathan safran foer. it's amazing! i'm almost done and i'm going to be reading a clockwork orange afterwards. :)

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  22. You have a beautiful space here-your photos are so lovely.

    I just finished reading "So Big" and I just loved it.

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  23. annette, svt visar indiefilm på nätet. jag såg "du sköna" idag och tror, utan att alls känna dig, att du hade uppskattat den. norsk-svensk produktion, sommar, allvar och röda hår.

    http://svtplay.se/t/134301/frizon_2011__du_skona

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  24. I like the book
    " the end of the story " from Lydia Davis, maybe you like it =)

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  25. My English is really bad, so I write it with Google Translator. (do not be surprised.) I love your photos and you make me so incredibly happy. I sink into endless pictures and often feel liberated and sometimes very limited. you have so much talent and a wonderful eye for photography. at best, I like the photo with the woman in white dress, floating on the water. I am so intoxicated with your pictures. Please take photographs never finish it! Let you go well, dearest regards, Hannah.

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  26. films: 10 things I hate about you, Shutter Island, The Fog

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  27. Haruki Murakami er fantastisk. Har lest alle bøkene han har skrevet på et halvt år!

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  28. audrey niffenegger: her fearful symmetry
    c.s. lewis: till we have faces: a myth retold

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  29. 12 Angry Men! Double Indemnity eller The Big Sleep om du är taggad på film noir...

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  30. Wetlands by Charlotte Roche - I read the German original version. Some parts are disgusting, but I love the novel, it's so hilarious.

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  31. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.
    In some ways it reminds me of the film, 'The Secret Life of Bees'. I decided to read this book because I heard that they were going to adapt into a film. I had to rush to read the book before the movie came out. The book is excellent! I dont know if the movie will live up to it!

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  32. Movies: Krzysztof Kieslowski: Three Colours: White, Red, Blue; The Double Life of Veronique.
    Books: George Orwell 1984, czech writer Michal Ajvaz

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  33. i'm feeling like reading some beautiful love poems from leonard cohen. he's such an inspiring old man.

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  34. jag känner mig nästan redo att säga att murakamis noveller är bättre än hans romaner. den där boken är fantastisk!

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  35. Jag läste precis de två första böckerna av Murakamis 1Q84. Tyckte förfärligt illa om dem, men så sade någon att hans noveller är bättre. Så jag kanske borde försöka mig på Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
    Någon annan tipsade om Twelve Angry Men! Jag såg den förra veckan. Den var väldigt bra.

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  36. What is the first book about? It looks very interesting.

    I recommend anything by Margaret Atwood, specifically Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin. Her books are fantastic and I am devouring all of her works this summer.

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  37. fernanda: I have both seasons of twin peaks on dvd, it's definitely one of my favourite tv series :)

    alica: I use a nikon d70 (which is actually leo's, and I myself have a canon eos 350d, but I hardly use it anymore). I edit my digital photos in photoshop, basically just the same way as I edit my analogue ones, contrast and tones, nothing major :)

    kate: I actually really liked wetlands. it definitely felt like a debut (or can one actually feel that?), but I thought the language flowed nicely. and the shocking parts were truly disgusting, but I mostly laughed when reading those parts :)

    camille: oh yes, you should read bukowski! I have read five of his books so far, and I loved them all.

    kat: 'blind willow...' is a nice collection of novels, but some of them never stuck with me and sort of felt a little bland. others I really loved, and those really felt like murakami at his best.

    stephanie: känner absolut likadant om roche! :)

    vintageveggie: leo bought 'the stranger' a while ago, so I'll probably read it soon :)

    joanna: I recently read the bell jar by sylvia plath, but I didn't really like it. it might have something to do with my high expectations for it though, haha.

    sarah: I read 'extremely loud...' a few months ago as well, and it is truly one of my favourite books of all time!

    maja: åh, det låter fint, det ska jag kolla upp!

    hannah: thank you so so incredibly much!

    petrosvardanian: film noir är alltid härligt!

    helen: åh, hur kommer det sig att du tyckte så illa om IQ84? jag har inte läst dem än, så jag kan självklart inte uttala mig om dem - men jag ser ganska mycket fram emot att läsa dem. jag kan dock absolut förstå varför någon har svårt för murakamis skriverier. hans noveller är väl inte lika invecklade som romanerna, eller vad man ska säga, så de kanske är mer tilltalande :)

    christina: it's about a girl who is hospitalized after she injured herself while shaving her behind. it is very intimate and kind of disgusting, especially in the beginning. but I actually really liked it!

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  38. Den var lite slappt skriven och ganska jobbig också. Mycket upprepningar, till den mån att det känns som att den inte alls blivit editerad och som att bokens längd bara tjänar syftet att vara lång utan att det egentligen hjälper berättelsen. Murakami verkar tro att läsaren är en dum och skriver en allt på näsan, ingenting är subtilt eller öppet utan allt måste berättas (och upprepas). Dessutom är det gubbigt på ett sätt som verkar som om Murakami bara inte kunnat hålla pennan i styr... Konstant poängteras det hur inga av huvudrollsinnehavarna har någon fettprocent i kroppen, hur snygga de är... Det blir totalt Barbie-aktigt. Det värsta är nog Murakamis besatthet med en av bokens karaktärer, en tonårstjej. Hon nämns inte en endaste gång utan att det poängteras hur fasta bröst hon har, hur runda hennes bröst är genom hennes vita skjorta, etc etc. Gång på gång på gång på gång. Bör påpekas att inget av det här bidrar till berättelsen! Jag gillar invecklade saker men det blir bara utstuderat och pretentiöst (också till exempel After Dark verkade vara skriven enbart för att han skulle få name-droppa coola saker).
    Men smaken är delad! Förhoppningsvis gillar du den trots mina hårda ord - jag respekterar nog alla åsikter, men det var inget för mig :)
    Och hypokritiskt nog tänker jag läsa den tredje delen när den kommer ut i översättning - för spännande är det ju nog, trots allt.

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  39. i have no idea if you re going to like it as much as i do, but the book what has changed me is into the wild by jon krakauer. its pretty depressing book, and you definitely cant get it out of your mind for a while, but it is worth every second. also into thin air by the same author.

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  40. I'm currently reading ''rant'' by chuck palahniuk [author of the Fight Club] and it's both sick and awesome.

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